twentieth

"To think that this is my twentieth birthday, and that I've left my teens behind me forever," said Anne, who was curled up on the hearth-rug with Rusty in her lap, to Aunt Jamesina who was reading in her pet chair.

Too late did the socialist movement of the early twentieth century divine the coming of the Oligarchy.

At the twentieth there was a general shudder, as it occurred to the minds of that vast assemblage that the bold travelers shut up within the projectile were also counting those terrible seconds.

It was the marriage certificate of the dead parents, and the date it bore was March the twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

"So you say, consul," asked he for the twentieth time, "that this steamer is never behind time?"

The big storm of the winter began on my eleventh birthday, the twentieth of January.

And undoubtedly it would have been a very large one, if only a twentieth part of the gentlemen without grooms had had occasion to alight; but they had not; and it is often an ill-natured circumstance like this, which spoils the most ingenious estimate in the world.

It was only the twentieth of September, when Agnes and the children reached Paris.

There, in the twentieth chapter of the Life of Pope Alexander VI., were the following lines, which I can never forget: --

This is the twentieth century, my dear fellow, and duelling went out of fashion before you and I were born."

Japan's officers reorganized the Chinese army; her drill sergeants made the mediaeval warriors over into twentieth century soldiers, accustomed to all the modern machinery of war and with a higher average of marksmanship than the soldiers of any Western nation.

On the twenty-fifth of this month a reinforcement of forty-five men arrived from North-Carolina, and about the twentieth of August following, Col.